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The Film Blog: Lights Camera Africa!!! Film Festival returns with the theme ‘RESET’
The Lights Camera Africa!!! Film Festival, a 3-day cultural event to celebrate independent African cinema, is returning this year with the theme ‘RESET’ – a strategic position to create a…
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Film Review: In Line is a weird mix of drama and suspense
by Wilfred Okiche The latest Nollywood-Ghollywood collaboration comes in the form of the dramatic thriller In Line from Firepix studio production. Debo (Uzor Arukwe) is an ex-convict recently sprung from…
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The Film Blog: What Lies Within lands in cinemas
2017 has been quite the year for Nollywood. From Isoken to Alakada Reloaded, local films have scored at the box office and this could be put down to the fact…
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Isoken retains the top position on our top 10 film countdown
Jadesola Osiberu’s Isoken retains its number one spot on the YNaija film ranking for this month. Despite a few new releases since its June 2017 debut, the movie is a…
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[The Film Blog] These two short films have important messages on inclusion
As the United States of America continues to confront its legacy of racism and inequality, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has its work cut out speaking out against police brutality. It is…
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Film Review: The Tribunal is mostly solid
by Wilfred Okiche The last of director Kunle Afolayan’s three picture deal with television giant, Africa Magic is a legal drama with social implications. This collaboration has yielded mixed results,…
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The Film Blog: Sango gets the film treatment with Dawn of Thunder
Komotion Studios with a $400 dollar budget and two weeks of work has helped move Yoruba culture forward for the digital age. Following the successes of American Gods on television…
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Film Review: My Wife and I is a decent project with lazy characterisation
Nigerian movie writers and production companies are riding high on the wings of the romantic comedy genre. The box office champ, The Wedding Party, changed the game irrevocably. Then the…
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[The Film Blog] It is Reset for Lights Camera Africa film festival
For many years, Nollywood has been plagued with bad movies. Dingy projects filmed in terribly lit rooms, by a cinematographer who is actually a technician or switch flicking guy, a…
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[The Film Blog] Two Nigerian movies are going to the Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto film festival is one of the best and diverse film festivals in the world. Since its establishment in 1976, the festival has grown and is arguably one of…
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Film review: Banana Island Ghost has the cool factor
Banana Island Ghost is a consolidation of recent developments in the Nigerian film industry. Coming in with a real great story that takes intense care of how the narrative is…
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The Film Blog: AFRIFF and Ford Foundation are helping to increase female participation in Nollywood
On the 9th of August, 20 young filmmakers gathered on the 9th floor of the CBC Towers in Lekki. They were brought together by AFRIFF and Ford Foundation to discuss…
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[The Film Blog] My Wife & I is premiering today and Beverly Naya…
Forgive us, we usually don't use words like 'slay' etc. But in this one case, biko try and h-understand. She does, in fact, slay.
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[The Film Blog]: These guys captured the beauty of the music in Banana Island Ghost
They totally capture how we feel about the music. We came out of the cinemas looking for everything. Even Reekado Bank's 'Problem' got new swag! Sugarboy always scores well with…
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[The Film Blog]: Just in case you have not seen the Banana Island Ghost special music video
So, since we watched Banana Island Ghost (BIG) this week and totally adored it, we declare this BIG week. And we found out there is a music video to with…
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The Film Blog: Ashey, Frank Donga is on a roll
As per, you should know that 'ashey', is the trademark of the Frank Donga persona when he is stuck. He is the lead star of the movie Hakkunde, that everyone…
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The Film Blog: We can’t sit still… Tade Ogidan is coming BACK!
We have racked our brains in an out, sideways and on the ball, wondering why the real king of Nigerian filmmaking, Tade Ogidan just fell off the radar. It didn’t…
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The Film Blog: Please epp… why do movies take so long after premiere to open?
So we have spent hours on Google asking this question, and we lobbed it to some of our people in the film industry. Maybe we have all the wrong friends,…
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The Film Blog: This one metric should help you recognize that Yoruba actors are bigger than you think
Look at Antar Laniyan. He makes much of his living these days working behind the scenes in collaboration with Wale Adenuga Productions. You can’t remember seeing him on any mainstream…
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The Film Blog: The full video of the interview that got Aunty Ronke mad this morning
This is the headline from Broadway Africa TV that led to Yoruba-movie actress, Ronke Oshodi-Oke's hysterics this morning: "I Can't Cook For You If I'm The Breadwinner Of The Family'.…
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The Film Blog: We swear, you just have to watch this 5-min video of Ronke Oshodi-Oke
That switch from calm to anger. Was there a director behind the scene? She asked us 'internet people' to post it. And so, here we are. You've got to…
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The Film Blog: Tribute to Adebayo Faleti shows that Yemi Osinbajo has sense
Nigerian poet, journalist, writer and actor Adebayo Faleti is dead. He will be laid to rest on the 8th of September 2017 in Ibadan. He was born on the 26…
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The Film Blog: Is Banana Island Ghost the most anticipated movie after Isoken?
Short answer: yes. Post the lavish premiere two Sundays ago, that’s all anybody can talk about, despite the fact that there has been the premiere of the sure-to-be-impressive Hakkunde just…
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The Film Blog: We now have a date for the Lights Camera Africa!!! 2017 Film Festival
29 September to 1 October 2017. Ugoma Adegoke, who is curator of one of the more thoughtful seventh edition of the annual event. It will hold at the Federal Palace Hotels,…
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[The Film Blog] Are they ever going to do something with B430 before we all turn 30?
In 2015, the Nigerian media and film space got a tease. Nemsia Studios promised a series that would shed light on and start a conversation around the issues the average…
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The Film Blog: Hakkunde is premiering this weekend. Let’s tell you why we are excited.
The trailer is world class. There is Frank Donga (Kunle Idowu). It is produced by the brilliant AMVCA-winning Oluseyi Asurf, and the impressive Judith Audu, who is production manager, and…
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[The Film Blog] EbonyLife TV is making a film about Black Germans in Nazi Germany
Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife TV is making a film about The fate of Afro Germans under Nazis. Before the Nazi party gained power and their propaganda spread to all of Germany, the…
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[The Film Blog] Sylaz Ud’ee is at the beginning of an exciting career as a film maker
Sylaz Ud'ee is a Nigerian-American film maker in the City College, New York undergoing his MFA in Filmmaking. The Lagos born filmmaker is in the news for his new movie…
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[The Film Blog]: How Isoken is still absolutely killing it at the cinemas
These scenting times are from the Silverbird Cinemas at the Galleria, also known as the most unattractive and least subscribed cinema in Lagos, Nigeria. And yet, Isoken is still going…
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Isoken debuts at Number 1 in our Top 10 Film countdown
Jade Osiberu's Isoken has waltzed its way into the number one position of the YNaija Ranking for film this month. The movie which hit the cinemas on June 16th has garnered a…
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